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Image display control apparatus and image display control program

a control apparatus and image technology, applied in the field of image display control apparatus and image display control program, can solve the problem of user colliding with the surrounding obstacles, and achieve the effect of convenient operation of the work

Active Publication Date: 2021-01-07
ALPHA CODE INC
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This patent describes a technology that allows a user to see their hand in a virtual space while wearing a head-mounted display. This helps the user perform tasks while using the virtual space as a guide. The technology allows the user to easily perform work in the real world while wearing the head-mounted display. The technical effect of this technology is to improve the user's experience and make tasks easier while using virtual space.

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However, the fact that the real world is completely shut out is sometimes attractive in the VR, but it can also be a demerit.
For example, when the user wears the HMD, the user is unable to see the outside world at all, and so when the user actually walks as if the user were to walk in the virtual space created in the HMD, the user may collide with the surrounding obstacles.

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[0021]Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the appended drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of an image display control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment. The image display control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment reproduces a virtual space image stored in a VR image storage unit 300 and causes the virtual space image to be displayed on an HMD 200. The HMD 200 includes a posture detecting sensor 201 and a camera 202. The image display control apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment controls the image to be displayed on the HMD 200 on the basis of outputs of the posture detecting sensor 201 and the camera 202.

[0022]As illustrated in FIG. 1, the image display control apparatus 100 of the first embodiment includes an image reproducing unit 11, a captured image acquiring unit 12, a target object detecting unit 13, a position detecting unit 14 and an image ...

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[0051]Next, a second embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the appended drawings. FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of an image display control apparatus 100′ according to the second embodiment. Note that, in FIG. 5, blocks denoted by the same reference numerals as those illustrated in FIG. 1 have the same functions, and therefore, duplicate description will be omitted here. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the image display control apparatus 100′ according to the second embodiment includes a target object determining unit 16 and an image superimposition unit 17 in place of the position detecting unit 14 and the image superimposition unit 15 illustrated in FIG. 1.

[0052]The target object determining unit 16 determines whether or not the human hand is included in the target object detected by the target object detecting unit 13. For example, the target object determining unit 16 can determine whether or not the human hand is i...

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A target object detecting unit 13 that detects a target object existing within a predetermined distance from an HMD 200 from a moving image of a real world captured by a camera 202 installed in the HMD 200 displaying a virtual space image and an image superimposition unit 15 that causes an image of a predetermined range including the target object to be displayed superimposed on a virtual space image are provided, and when a user performs a predetermined work with a hand within a range photographed in the camera 202 installed in the HMD 200, the captured image of the predetermined range including the hand is displayed superimposed on the virtual space image, and thus the user can appropriately perform the predetermined work while looking at the captured image displayed superimposed on the virtual space image even while wearing the HMD 200.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to an image display control apparatus and an image display control program, and particularly, to a technique suitable for use in an apparatus that controls display of an image in a virtual space created for a head mounted display.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In recent years, a virtual reality (VR) technique which makes users to experience a virtual world created in a computer as if it were a reality has been widely used. There are various VR applications, and a technique that enables a user wearing a goggle type head mounted display (HMD) to have various virtual experiences in a three-dimensional virtual space created in the HMD by a computer is common. The VR can also present the user with a world that exceeds the constraints of reality such as a time and a space.[0003]One of the attractions of the VR using the goggle type HMD is that the real world outside the HMD is completely shut out, so the user can be immersed in the world of the virt...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06T19/00G02B27/01G06T7/70G06F3/0481
CPCG06T19/006G02B27/017G02B2027/0138G06F3/04815G06T7/70G06F3/011G09G5/14G09G5/377G09G2354/00
Inventor MIZUNO, TAKUHIRO
Owner ALPHA CODE INC
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